Richmond young defender Tom Brown has suffered a "clean break" of his arm in the loss to Adelaide on Sunday, adding further injury turmoil to the Punt Road club.
Brown was sidelined in the first quarter before the unfortunate setback, which takes the amount of Tigers players on the pine to 17.
"The 'Doc' said at half-time that he thinks it's a clean break and he'll go in for an operation straight away and put a plate and all those sorts of things, so I'm not sure how long that will take. Hopefully it's on the shorter end," Adem Yze said post-match.
"It's unfortunate that we lose him. He was just starting to hit his straps, he had played two really good games of footy, he is an emerging leader of our footy club. He was a reason why we got our win last week [and why we were] really competitive against Melbourne."
Yze couldn't help but feel frustrated by the amount of injuries that has ultimately hindered his club's chances of playing consistent competitive football.
The Tigers lament at the bottom of the ladder after an eighth loss for the season.
"We're winning all the metrics that you want to be winning, so part of when you talk about the frustration is we need our players getting better on the AFL field so we need them available," Yze said.
"So Sammy Lalor can't get better sitting here watching. We've got too many players on our injury list right now, so the frustration around that is because they can't get a volume of games together, not only individually but together.
"The positive on that front is that post-bye we'll get a few of them back and then they get a chance to go and gel together out on the field, and Harry Armstrong gets to play beside Jonty Faull and Taj Hotton will do what he does and we can't wait to get him back out there."
